You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAll l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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